#1 REVELSTOKE – British Colombia, Canada
Mount MacKenzie, Revelstoke Ski Resort. photo: worldsnowboardingguide.com
- 5,620 Vertical Feet (most continuous lift served vertical in The New World)
- Video of insane pillow skiing at Revelstoke
#2 BLACKCOMB – British Colombia, Canada
Blackcomb Ski Resort...yep, it’s huge.
- 5,133 Vertical Feet (resort claims 5,280 so they can say “a vertical mile”)
- Whistler (literally attached now) is at 4,978 Vertical Feet
- Video of the miniature world of Blackcomb
#3 TELLURIDE – Colorado, USA
Telluride, Colorado
- 4,425 Vertical Feet
- Video from “Blizzard of Ahhs” at Telluride
#4 SNOWMASS – Colorado, USA
Snowmass, Colorado
- 4,406 Vertical Feet (includes hiking or infrequently running rope tow, 3,723 w/o hiking/tow)
- Aspen Highlands (right next door) has 3,635 vertical feet
- Video of Freeskier peeps going nuts at Snowmass
#5 BIG SKY – Montana, USA
Big Sky, Montana
- 4,350 Vertical Feet (3,650 vertical feet is skiable in one long run from top of Lone Peak Tram)
- Video of high level snowboarding at Big Sky by Erik Morrison
#6 JACKSON HOLE – Wyoming, USA
Cody Peak at Jackson Hole, Wyoming
- 4,139 Vertical Feet (most continuous lift served skiing in USA)
- Video of the Squaw Boys skiing at Jackson Hole
#7 KICKING HORSE – British Colombia, Canada
Kicking Horse, British Colombia. photo: skirebel.com
- 4,131 Vertical Feet
- Video of big mountain skiing at Kicking Horse
#8 BEAVER CREEK – Colorado, USA
Beaver Creek, Colorado
- 4,040 Vertical Feet
- Video of cheesy skiing & riding & some faceshots at Beaver Creek
#9 PANORAMA – British Colombia, Canada
Panorama Ski Resort, British Colombia
- 3,820 Vertical Feet
- Video, marketing style, of Panorama’s panorama
#10 TIMBERLINE ON MOUNT HOOD – Oregon, USA
Timberline on Mount Hood, Oregon
- 3,620 Vertical Feet (with a small amount of hiking, you can get 7,250’ of vertical)
- Longest vertical drop in North America….November – September
- Video of the Timberline Lodge in….”The Shining”…you know that it was filmed there, right?
"...he ran amuck, killed his family with an axe.” “You can rest assured, Mt. Olman, that’s not gonna happen with me.”
I thought Telluride was in the area of 3600 vert?
That Revelstoke vid is sick!! Watch it! STOKE!
Actually, “The Shining” was filmed in Estes Park, CO. Yes, the outside view of the building is Timberline Lodge, but all the live filming was done in CO.
Actually King was only inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. The original 1980 film was filmed on soundstages at EMI Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, Britain. The set for the Overlook Hotel was then the largest ever built, including a full re-creation of the exterior of the hotel. A few exterior shots by a second-unit crew were done at Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon. These shots are notable because of the absence of the hedge maze, a nonexistent feature at the actual hotel. Some of the interiors are based on those of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. The Timberline Lodge requested Kubrick change the number of the sinister Room 217 of King’s novel to 237, so customers would not avoid the real Room 217.
YES PANORAMA BC FINALLY GETTING RECOGNITION
Proud to be a local 
the thing about those that are “bigger” than jackson, they dont have 1 lift that brings you straight to the top, let alone a tram. so basically its 2-3 lifts to get to the top then you have that verticle. plus its a chairlift lol. so they might be the longest but thats if you include the 2-3 chairlift rides to get that.
Clearly being from Jackson you know everything. I to lived in Jackson for 2 years so also know everything.
1stly.. Kicking Horse (9 vertical feet less than Jackson) accesses pretty much the entire vertical in a Gondola, not a cramped tram, standing only, 2hrs waiting to get on, 1 lap and the hill is worked, but a 12 minute Gondola ride chilling with you buddies.
2ndly.. The base lift in Revelstoke is also a gondola, it takes you up 3,547ft (just under 600ft of Jacksons total) to the MID MOUNTAIN. Then the stoke lift takes you the remainder of the vertical .. 5620ft.
Granted Jackson is a better hill than both.. But just sayin’
I have never waited 2 hours for a tram ride–and I’ve been in Jackson a lot longer that two years. You must’ve slept through your turn.
That being said, I’ve never skied those other mountains and have no comparison. May never–I never get tired of skiing here.
Timberline is somewhat dubious. Palmer does not run in the winter. I will say it is pretty sweet in spring though. Wide open corn out west of the lift.
Second. Awesome post spring storm skiing and corn harvesting. You can catch a lift on the snowcat weekends during the winter, if you are willing to wait. Totally worth it if there is freshies.
…You know it’s British ColUmbia, right? ColOmbia deals in the OTHER white stuff.
Gotta think outside the resort boys. I skied 7k off of Shasta in July. There has to be several other longer decents.
Ya but you got one run and your legs were worked from hiking everything that you eventually skied. Oh, and you ate granola the entire time.
The Minden Mile off the top of Monument Peak @ Heavenly deserves at minumum an honorable mention (it’s definitely 5000+) & Firebreak from the top of East Peak is around 3500 vert(it’s about 3000 from the Gondola mid-deck), both lift served more or less…
Don’t forget to mention the 1.5 miles of FLAT traversing you must do at Heavenly on your run… what a sleepy mountain zzzzzz. If I am going to pay $100 for a view of the lake, I might as well do it from a plane on its way to Jackson Hole, or Telluride…
if you are hiking a mile and half in flats you are just lost, on a board the minden run requires only a little hiking if you aim over the bottom ridge properly and the gondola done right i’m unstrapped for less then 2 min…i’ll take it sleepy and fresh rather then wide awake and tracked out anyday…heavenly is all about knowing exactly where to go and that takes time not many hardcores will put in luckily i sucked when i moved here so i didn’t care where i rode and i lived at base of heavenly so i explored the shit out of that place always finding something new to take it to the next level took 8 seasons before i was bored enough to buy a squaw pass
Timberline on Mt. Hood offers several unassuming 55 degree pitches on the way off the summit. Then you switch gear over at the car and throw down in the park for the rest of the day! 4 hours round-trip with the right tools. Timberline!- If you just cant cope with anything less than 250 days of shredding a season!
I think the statistics are misleading. The Top 2 are accurate but the bottom half are not. Check out this link for “true vertical drop”
http://mountainvertical.com/
Are we talking about added hiking? With a quick little walk over to the Grand, Jackson Hole has a vert of 6,550.
If we looked at vertical drop based on highest and lowest points (no additional hiking) the Top 10 would be:
1. Revelstoke
2. Whistler-Blackhomb
3. Jackson Hole
4. Snowmass
5. Big Sky
6. Panorama Ski Resort
7. Telluride
8. Kicking Horse
9. Timberline
10. Aspen Highlands
Just a note, the “Video of Freeskier peeps going nuts at Snowmass” is actually peeps going nuts on Aspen Mountain (Ajax)
Steamboat has 3,668 feet of vertical yet isn’t on the list…..doesn’t seem very accurate.